Dec 31, 2016 the protagonist of joriskarl huysmans a rebours against nature, in my translation, though the original title has a wider connotation. Decadent novel a rebours, or, against nature the british. As des esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultural delights and. Aug 02, 2011 a rebours is a novel by a french writer translated. A rebours translated into english as against nature or against the. It was also translated into english as against nature. Huysmans 1884 1 more than two months slipped by before the time came when des esseintes found it feasible to immerse himself definitely in the peace and silence of his house at fontenay. This web version of john howards translation of joriskarl huysmanss a rebours, whose title is rendered both against the grain and against nature, uses the project gutenberg ascii text produced by harrison ainsworth release date. Gratis joris karl huysmans a rebours pdf piu popolare. A wildly original findesiecle novel, against nature contains only one character.
The project gutenberg ebook of against the grain, by joriskarl. First published in 1884, a rebours against the grain by the french. Scaricare a rebours libri pdf gratis by joriskarl huysmans download link. Nov 05, 2019 unfortunately, several chapters are devoted to enumerating the various works of art and sensory stimuli that lead des esseintes huyzmans the novels only character through his passionate aesthetic reactions which can leave an ignorant reader like myself altogether unstimulated. As brilliant nietzsche scholar rick roderick pointed out. Huysmans famous novel a rebours, the duc des esseintes is a wealthy, decadent french nobleman who loves imagining voyages to foreign lands after becoming enamored with dutch painting, he travels to holland, but becomes disappointed when he realizes that the images he saw in art were merely mixed with other elements of the land.
Des esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Most of the time, and quite famously so, a rebours is regarded as the bible of decadence, as the biography of a highly sensitive and somewhat effeminate and probably homosexual character that can no longer stand the sensory impulses of urban life. Huysmanss biographer, baldick, echoes the earliest critics of a rebours in his assessment. About against nature a rebours the infamous inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts oscar wildes dorian gray is translated by robert baldick with an introduction by patrick mcguinness in penguin classics. Charlesmariegeorges huysmans was a french novelist who published his works as j. The thing he could not forgive, however, and which infuriated him most, was the. A rebours available for download and read online in other formats. Scaricare a rebours libri pdf gratis di joriskarl huysmans. A rebours by joriskarl huysmans 1884 the bestknown example of findesiecle decadence, this novel has been banned and expurgated for years. Resisting the traditional model of nineteenthcentury fiction, joriskarl huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Either translated as against nature or against the grain, the title refers to the central process of the book, in which an aristocrat, des esseintes, completely withdraws himself from society to immerse himself in concentrated sensations in private. Without being able to explain the reason, des esseintes awoke quite strong and well one fine morning. The shock caused by a drastic change of social habits, comparable, in terms of social impact, to the contemporary hyperconnection. Against the grain, or a rebours, was written by joris huysmans in 1884, and it tells the story of a young duke named jean des esseintes who indulges in a life of debauchery in paris but suffers.
Portraits of the artist from baudelaire to des esseintes taylor. Les meilleures photo ruisseauarebours des internautes. Antihero jean des esseintes despises the bourgeois society he lives in and withdraws. Des esseintes wants to experience life in measured and verifiable doses, and he. His description was not a model to be emulated or celebrated. Artifice against nature one consequence of des es lifestyle is that, the more he discriminates, the more he moves away from other people, until eventually he lives an almost hermitlike existence on the outskirts of paris, surrounded only by the objets of his own. The last scion of an aristocratic family, des esseintes loathes nineteenth century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal.
Against nature is the story of des esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. It concerns the seclusion of des esseintes, the last member of a once powerful and noble family. Huysmans thats des esseintes for you, speaking of a boychild he had granted three months of biweekly brothel visits to, for no other reason but a sudden whim to conduct a viciously abhorrent sort of social experiment. A translation by robert baldick against nature in the penguin series is convenient to read and widely. The protagonist, and actually the only character worth mentioning, is duc jean des esseintes, a thirtyyear old child of. The protagonist, des esseintes, exhibits the debilitating symptoms of neurasthenia, a generalized psychosomatic disorder that came into. This upperclass antihero is an aesthete who loath his contemporaries and lives retreated in his once splendid and rich home, where he collects objects of art. Against the grain, novel by joriskarl huysmans, published in french as a rebours in 1884. Huysmans 1884 chapter ten in the course of that sickness which plays such havoc with surges of exhausted vitality, sudden intervals of calm succeed the crises. The project gutenberg ebook of against the grain, by joris. Jan 10, 2020 huysman against nature pdf against nature by joriskarl huysmans is a novel in which very little happens.
A beginners guide to better understand their amazon fire phone fire phone, fire phone books, fire. Apr 25, 2020 against nature a rebours refresh and try again. Nature, calls it, is also exceptional because he believes this total deliquescence. Librivox recording of against the grain, or against nature, by joriskarl huysmans, read by martin geeson.
A rebours is wrong way, which huysmans described in his novel. Against nature fell like a meteorite into the literary fairground and there was astonishment and fury huysmans, preface to against nature. In both its style and its subject, the work epitomizes the decadence of late 19thcentury french elite culture. Aug 06, 2019 joriskarl huysmans a rebours pdf the infamous inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts oscar wildes dorian gray is translated by robert baldick with an introduction by. The hero of this book, jean des esseintes, is the aaginst of a line of distinguished aristocrats. Des esseintes would gladly have accepted the tedious nonsense which those marionettes exchange with each other offstage. That is the trap into which des esseintes falls in huysmans experimental novel, called a rebours in the french, variously translated in english as against the grain or against nature. A rebours, against the grain or against nature in english, is an 1884 novel by joriskarl huysmans. Rebours, the novel by joriskarl huysmans from 1884, as a critique of public urban life on the one hand, and as an experiment in private life on the other hand. After becoming enamored with dutch painting, he travels to holland, but becomes disappointed when he realizes that the images he saw in art were merely mixed with other elements of the landscape. Against nature joriskarl huysmans oxford university press. Des esseintes is a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa, where he pursu. As des esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultural delights and anticipates many aspects of twentieth century modernism.
Jean des esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. Esseintes a beau avoir quitte le monde, il en est obsede. Colin wilsons suggestion may merely tell us more about colin wilson than what would have undoubtedly pleased huysmans. The character of duc des esseintes in the art of travel from. The project gutenberg ebook of a rebours, by joriskarl huysmans. A rebours is a novel by a french writer translated. It was also translated into english as against nature in both its style and its subject, the work epitomizes the decadence of late 19thcentury french elite culture.
Des esseintes perfumes fromagainstthegrainrebours byj. The project gutenberg ebook of a rebours, by joriskarl. Project gutenberg statement note that the six paragraphs following the phrase monotonous coquetry disgusting him. This is the earliest edition the british library holds of a rebours, a novel published by the french writer and civil servant joriskarl huysmans in 1884 what does the title mean. The character of duc des esseintes in the art of travel. Antihero jean des esseintes despises the bourgeois society he lives in and withdraws into the aesthetic and artistic ideals that he has created. The project gutenberg ebook of a rebours, by joriskarl huysmans this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the united states and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
The floressas des esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in. All the novel is concentrate in one eccentric character and its inner life. Landow created the html design and formatted the text, adding french accents. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of huysmans cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the bible of decadence. It scarcely admittedin theory at leastany exceptions huysmzns the rule. The last scion of an aristocratic family, des esseintes loathes nineteenth century. Either translated as against nature or against the grain, the title refers to the central process of the book, in which an aristocrat, des esseintes, completely withdraws himself from. As the book that supposedly corrupts dorian gray, a rebours is usually read as a novel in which life imitates art, but it might also. After a lifetime of parisian decadence, and out of a. A rebours 1884 is a novel by the french writer joriskarl huysmans. The book became a central work in the decadent movement, as described by arthur symons. Closely arrayed, side by side, in the old frames which their broad shoulders filled, they startled one with the fixed gaze of their eyes, their fierce moustaches and the chests whose deep curves filled the.
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